Bible verse

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Nahum 3:1 · BSB

Nahum 3:1 in context

The verses around it, from Nahum 3.

1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—

4 because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

Read all of Nahum 3

Nahum 3:1 in other translations

KJV

Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not;

ASV

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

ERV

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

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